Birth weight and cognitive function at age 11 years: the Scottish Mental Survey 1932

AIMS To examine the relation between birth weight and cognitive function at age 11 years, and to examine whether this relation is independent of social class. METHODS Retrospective cohort study based on birth records from 1921 and cognitive function measured while at school at age 11 in 1932. Subjec...

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Published in:Archives of disease in childhood 2001-09, Vol.85 (3), p.189-196
Main Authors: Shenkin, S D, Starr, J M, Pattie, A, Rush, M A, Whalley, L J, Deary, I J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Factors
Barker hypothesis
Biological and medical sciences
Birth size
Birth Weight
Birth weight, Low
Body Weight
Child
Child Development - physiology
Children
Cognition - physiology
Cognition in children
Cognition. Intelligence
Cognitive ability
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Tests
Cohort Studies
Community Child Health, Public Health, and Epidemiology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Health risk assessment
Humans
Illegitimacy
Infant, Newborn
Intellectual and cognitive abilities
intelligence
Intelligence Tests
Linear Models
Low birth weight
Male
Parity
Psychological aspects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Retrospective Studies
Social Class
Social classes
Socioeconomic factors
Statistics, Nonparametric
Studies
Testing
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Summary:AIMS To examine the relation between birth weight and cognitive function at age 11 years, and to examine whether this relation is independent of social class. METHODS Retrospective cohort study based on birth records from 1921 and cognitive function measured while at school at age 11 in 1932. Subjects were 985 live singletons born in the Edinburgh Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital in 1921. Moray House Test scores from the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 were traced on 449 of these children. RESULTS Mean score on Moray House Test increased from 30.6 at a birth weight of
ISSN:0003-9888
1468-2044
DOI:10.1136/adc.85.3.189